"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

Si salvi chi può (prima le donne e i bambini)


Roba che al confronto Sodoma e Gomorra sono state una scampagnata
e il Diluvio Universale un piacevole diversivo.

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On Mandatory Tutoring in the Office

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Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures

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Cixin Liu’s Hold Up the Sky

This is a really splendid collection of stories, some shorter than other, and I wouldn’t have collected them this way: you have proper sci-fi stories and fairy tales, stories about science (with very little fiction), a story on coal mines and a war tale. But,

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3 Comments
  • Njord
    Posted at 07:39h, 01 April Reply

    miglior paragone non poteva esserci, BRAVA!!! …come sempre

  • HowlingWolf
    Posted at 08:37h, 01 April Reply

    Allora non sono l’unico a vedere la cosa con malcelato pessimismo!

  • heraclitus
    Posted at 07:49h, 06 April Reply

    l’avete voluta e mo ve la tenete…

    mi dispiace per voi… ;-)

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